Walmart Odered To Pay $188 Million In Pennsylvannia Wage Theft Lawsuit

Alan: I marvel that American conservatives are constantly lathered by the penny ante crime of black and Hispanic thieves (perpetrated almost exclusively on their ethnic fellows) but remain impervious to ongoing tsunami of institutional crime like wall-to-wall criminality up and down Wall Street prior to The Great Recession; the self-destructive monstrosity of The Iraq War (not to mention a million dead Iraqis and the radical destabilization of The Middle East); or the tale of Walmart wage theft described in the article below. American white people are so obsessed with anecdotal stories and "police blotter" dramas-of-the-poor that the entire forest is blotted out by their obsession with individual trees.  

At the following webpage -- http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/bad-black-people-why-bill-oreilly-is.html -- I encourage you to read the text that follows the photo of Bo Brownstein and Junior Allan.

"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/bad-black-people-why-bill-oreilly-is.html

Walmart ordered to pay $188 million in Pennsylvania wage theft lawsuit

by Laura Clawson

Walmart's labor practices are not doing so well in court lately. Last week, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Walmart illegally intimidated workers. This week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a lower court verdict and ordered Walmart to pay $188 million to workers who sued because, they said, Walmart wasn't paying them for the full hours they worked and wasn't paying for rest breaks.

About 187,000 people who worked in Pennsylvania Walmarts between 1998 and 2006 would be affected, but—surprise!—Walmart is considering an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said the company did not believe the claims should be grouped together in a class-action suit. "Walmart has had strong policies in place to make sure all associates receive their appropriate pay and break periods," she said.

Sure is funny how despite all those strong policies, this sort of lawsuit keeps happening to poor, poor Walmart. And now the company's quarterly earnings are taking a hit because of this decision, and the Walton family may have somewhat fewer dollars to add to their billions.